AMD FX-4300 vs AMD FX-9830P

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

1362 points

0.74% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2574 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1031 points

0.49% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

990 points

0.41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1621 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

636 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

1465 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

613 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

849th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs FX-9830P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9830P is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-9830P. In terms of cache, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-9830P

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.